Mingle Seasoning Recipes: 18 Easy Ways to Use Every Flavour
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From Butter Chicken to Satay, here's how to use every Mingle recipe base and seasoning, plus slow cooker tips and answers to the most common how-to questions.
The whole point of Mingle is that it takes the guesswork out of a weeknight dinner, but with 50-odd products across seasonings, recipe bases, gravies and sauces, it's easy to end up with a pantry shelf of jars and no plan for any of them. Here's how to actually use every category in the range, 18 flavour-specific ideas to try, and answers to the questions we get asked most, including how to open a stubborn jar.
How to Use a Mingle Recipe Base
Recipe bases are the closest thing in the range to a meal kit. Follow the method on the back of the pack, which usually means browning your protein of choice (mince, chicken, tofu) and combining it with the base, a splash of water or a tin of tomatoes, and whatever vegetables you have on hand. Most come together in around 20 minutes, so they suit a busy weeknight more than a slow Sunday cook-up.
How to Use a Mingle All Natural Seasoning
Seasonings are more flexible. Sprinkle them directly onto meat, fish or vegetables before cooking, stir a spoonful into a marinade, or finish a dish with a light dusting just before serving. Because they're not built around one specific meal, a single jar tends to get used more often than a recipe base does.
18 Mingle Seasoning Recipe Ideas
Recipe Bases
- Butter Chicken: chicken thigh, a tin of tomatoes and the base, simmered and served over rice
- Tacos: brown mince, stir through the base, spoon into tortillas with your usual toppings
- Smokey Chipotle Tacos: same method as above, with more heat for those who want it
- Chow Mein: toss through stir-fried noodles, chicken or tofu and whatever vegetables are in the crisper
- Satay: simmer with chicken or tofu and a splash of coconut milk for a satay-style sauce
- Green Curry, Japanese Curry and Sri Lankan Curry: three different curry styles on the same 20-minute method, handy for rotating curry night without repeating a flavour
- Stroganoff: a shortcut to a creamy beef stroganoff, served over pasta or mash
- Spag Bol Speedy-Style: for nights when a proper long-simmered bolognese isn't happening
- Buffalo Chicken Bake: oven-baked chicken traybake with a buffalo-style kick
- Mexican Fajita: capsicum, onion, your protein of choice, and a warm wrap
All Natural Seasonings
- Lemon Pepper: roast vegetables or grilled fish
- Korean BBQ: rubbed onto chicken wings or pork before the grill
- Meat All Rounder: an everyday go-to for steak, mince or a weeknight roast
- Tuscan Chicken: pan-seared chicken breast, finished with a squeeze of lemon
- Furikake Rice Topper: sprinkled over rice bowls or avocado toast
- Everything Bagel: over eggs, avocado toast, or roasted potatoes
- Peri Peri BBQ Roast or Rub: a whole roast chicken or butterflied lamb
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Can You Use Mingle Recipe Bases in a Slow Cooker?
Recipe bases are designed around a stovetop or oven method, so the pack instructions are the most reliable starting point. That said, many home cooks adapt them for the slow cooker by adding the base with the protein and a little extra liquid at the start of cooking, then tasting and adjusting toward the end. If you're trying this for the first time, start on a shorter high setting rather than a full low-and-slow day, since a long simmer can intensify the salt level more than you'd expect from the stovetop method.
Quick Answers
How do I use a Mingle recipe base?
Combine it with your protein of choice and a few pantry staples, following the method on the pack. Most recipe bases come together in around 20 minutes.
How do I use a Mingle seasoning?
Sprinkle it onto meat, fish or vegetables before cooking, stir it into a marinade, or dust it over a finished dish.
Can I use a Mingle recipe base in a slow cooker?
The pack method is stovetop or oven based, but it can be adapted for a slow cooker with extra liquid and a shorter, higher-heat setting to start.
How do I open a stuck Mingle seasoning jar?
A firm twist after briefly running the lid under warm water usually loosens it. Recipe base sachets just tear open at the corner like any other pantry pack.
Which Mingle flavour is best for beginners?
Use Me On Everything and Tacos are the two easiest starting points, since both suit ingredients most households already have on hand. If you're still deciding what to try, our Mingle seasoning review breaks down taste and ingredients across the range.
The Bottom Line
Once you know the two basic methods, seasonings sprinkled on and recipe bases simmered or baked with your protein, the whole Mingle range opens up well beyond the flavour or two most people default to. Browse the full Mingle Seasoning Australia range to find your next weeknight regular.
